Managing and delivering medium and large-scale IT projects on time, on budget, and on value

Medium and large IT efforts often cost much more than planned; some can put the whole organization in jeopardy. The companies that defy these odds are the ones that master key dimensions that align IT and business value. We ensure your projects delivered are on time, on budget, and on value

Our People
Our ability to bring consultants to the table to meet your specific project management challenges ensures the provision of the best person who will make an early and positive impact on your project. Supporting our people is our highly experienced executive team who have a detailed involvement in each assignment. Our proven methodologies in project governance adds to what our people and management deliver and form the CICTI promise —we commit with care and we deliver.

Our Value Assurance – Four ways to improve project performance
The key to success for maximizing the chances that IT projects deliver the expected value on time and within budget lies in mastering four broad dimensions, which combined make up a methodology for medium and large-scale IT projects that we call “value assurance”. The following elements make up this approach:

focusing on managing strategy and stakeholders instead of exclusively concentrating on budget and scheduling,

building effective teams by aligning their incentives with the overall goals of projects,

excelling at core project-management practices, such as short delivery cycles and rigorous quality checks.

Project Phases – Independent Oversight
Our high quality project managers will provide oversight and assurance including detailed engagement at each phase of a project lifecycle:

Initiation
Rigorous investment appraisal, support to executive decision making

Definition and Planning
Assurance of the scope, plan, charter, capacity to execute, make vs buy, resources and priorities as well as defining project metrics and KPI’s. The project communications plan is a key feature.

Performance and Control
Project KPIs and action plan management conducted by programme office and in support of Client Project Review Board including CICTI project executive.

Closure
Project owner sign-off. A post project success and lessons learned is adopted here as a feedback loop to ensure continuous improvement in project oversight. CICTI offers coaching and mentoring to new project managers in support of their ongoing development.